{"id":1159,"date":"2017-06-02T09:27:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T09:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisgoja.com\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:39:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:39:36","slug":"tri-as-i-might","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisgoja.com\/?p=1159","title":{"rendered":"Tri as I might&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://mccantshomes.com/abigail/">https://mccantshomes.com/abigail/</a> <div id=\"attachment_1162\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisgoja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0519.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1162\" width=\"634\" height=\"634\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisgoja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0519.jpg?resize=634%2C634\" title=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisgoja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0519.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisgoja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0519.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisgoja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0519.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisgoja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0519.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisgoja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0519.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisgoja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0519.jpg?resize=816%2C816&amp;ssl=1 816w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisgoja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0519.jpg?w=1268 1268w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisgoja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_0519.jpg?w=1902 1902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><p> 
<a href="https://frontiercorporateservices.com/officehousekeeping/">Ambien No Prescription</a> Three shades of tri&#8230;<\/p><\/div>&#8230;there&#8217;s no denying that &#8211; with less than three weeks to go before Luxembourg, my first Ironman 70.3 &#8211; this whole triathlon idea is starting to feel quite intimidating!<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://www.navarraenmarchacontraelcancer.org/centros-educativos/">https://www.navarraenmarchacontraelcancer.org/centros-educativos/</a> I mean, I can swim my &#8220;granny crawl&#8221; (you know that stately progression through the water ladies of a certain age who&#8217;ve just come from the hairdresser specialise in) well enough, and I can run &#8211; if not fast, then at least for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisgoja.com\/?p=678\"> a long time<\/a> &#8211; but I have yet to go more than 30k on the bike in one session (In my defense, I only got my race bike less than a week ago, but still&#8230;) And then of course there&#8217;s the small matter of putting it all together, all three disciplines one after the other. Who in their right mind does that??<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://www.appliancedrgj.com/refrigerators/">go</a> Like all participants I got the email containing race rules and regulations this week. You get penalties for <i> <a href="https://dlnhs.org/charles-forbell/">see</a> everything<\/i>, it seems. Some of them things I didn&#8217;t even know existed! Like drafting. Apparently you can&#8217;t stay close behind someone when biking, because that way you benefit from them pushing the air out of your way. I would have thought that was a bit superfluous as a rule. No one objects to that when swimming or running (in the first case because you&#8217;d get your teeth kicked out if you tried, and stumble in the latter), so is it really necessary to have a rule like that?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://kzoomusic.com/en/faq/">https://kzoomusic.com/en/faq/</a> There&#8217;s also the &#8220;no indecent exposure&#8221; rule&#8230; in my experience, people participating in a race don&#8217;t give a damn (mass peeing before a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisgoja.com\/?p=363\">marathon<\/a>, anyone?), and if someone were to actually expose themselves &#8220;with intent&#8221; I reckon he would have to answer to every other participant present, rule or no rule, but better safe than sorry, I suppose.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://leandroygaia.com/about-us/">https://leandroygaia.com/about-us/</a> You even get a penalty if you hang a balloon or similar from your bike so as to find it easily after the swim. That&#8217;s a bit stingy, isn&#8217;t it? It was one of the best tips I picked up reading about triathlons, and I was looking forward to seeing a sea of bright balloons, scarves, and what have you in the transit area, but that&#8217;s not to be, it seems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://endurapost.com.au/tree-stakes/">go to link</a> Anyway, those are just minor details. For now, the main challenge &#8211; beyond the ever-present question of whether you&#8217;ve trained enough &#8211; lies in the logistics of the thing; How do you transport your bike safely? How do I organise all the kit so as not to forget something vital? What do I bring to eat\/drink? Will I be able to drive back after the race or will I be stranded from sheer exhaustion?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://frontiercorporateservices.com/ladysecurityguards/">https://frontiercorporateservices.com/ladysecurityguards/</a> I guess freaking out a little is normal at this stage. I try to tell myself, One step at a time. Before long, that principle will apply to the race day itself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
 &#8230;there&#8217;s no denying that &#8211; with less than three weeks to go before Luxembourg, my first Ironman 70.3 &#8211; this whole triathlon idea is starting to feel quite intimidating! I mean, I can swim my &#8220;granny crawl&#8221; (you know that stately progression through the water ladies of a certain age who&#8217;ve just come from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[311,1,20],"tags":[255,337,206,335],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-uncategorized","category-wellbeing","tag-fitness","tag-ironman","tag-training","tag-triathlon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6FmQe-iH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgoja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgoja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgoja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgoja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgoja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgoja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgoja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgoja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgoja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgoja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}